Junction Point head Warren Spector told Eurogamer: "We've taken a very interesting development approach [with Epic Mickey 2]. My studio director Paul Weaver came up with a way of building a virtual team all around the world. So we have people working in Leamington in the UK, in Bulgaria, China, Canada, California, Utah. We have an enormous virtual team.

"It's not outsourcing - I've got to be clear about that. It's not that we said, 'OK, there are a bunch of artists in Shanghai, go build us barrels and trees'. We have people in the UK actually building levels for us under our direction.

"We talk to them every day. We drive all the creative, but we have an enormous virtual team."